Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a jail was taken by a mob of about 300 masked men on the morning of Wednesday, October 2, 1901, and hanged from a telegraph pole in the center of the city. According to the newspaper account, the mob battered the jail door and the jailer gave up his keys at gunpoint. The article's own summary of the man's name, age and place of death is missing, so his identity remains unrecorded here. The account reports that he insisted he was the wrong man until the end.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 300 masked men broke into the jail, forced the jailer to surrender his keys at gunpoint, and hanged him from a telegraph pole.
Reported by: news reports.